Know Constituencies of UP Assembly elections 2017: BADLAPUR

Uttar Pradesh will go to Assembly elections early next year. The state has an Assembly comprising 403 seats. In order to form the government, a party or alliance has to win 202 seats.

Samajwadi Party had won 224 seats in the last state elections in 2012 and got decisive majority. Oneindia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it:

About Jaunpur: Jaunpur is a district in the Varanasi division. It divided into nine assembly constituencies -Badlapur, Jaunpur, Kerakat, Machhlishahr, Malhani, Mariyahu, Mungra Badshahpur, Shahganj and Zafrabad.

District Area: 4,038 square kilometres

District population: 44,94,204

District literacy: 60.8%

2012 Assembly election result in Badlapur

Winner: Om Prakash 'Baba' Dubey

Winning Party: Samajwadi Party

Votes received: 65,278

Runner Up: Lalji Yadav

Runner up party: BSP

Runner up votes: 49,085

Total votes: 1,76, 236

Margin: 16,193

Margin %: 9.19

Turnout %: 55.49

Census data for Jaunpur

Total area: 4,038 square kilometer

Total population: 44,94,204 out of which 22,20,465 are males and 22,73,739 are females.